BLOOMBERG Graham Davidson was in a slump, the worst he’d ever known. In 15 years as a foreign-exchange trader in Sydney, New York and London, he’d always made money. Now, in the winter of 2011, he seemed to have lost his touch, Bloomberg Markets magazine will report in its April issue. Davidson’s trades were all in the red — screaming, fire-engine red. And his mood had turned black. Self-doubt haunted every decision. He hesitated to put trades on. He jumped out of positions at the first hint of trouble, only to see the market turn again, racing ahead without him. “‘Is my approach still relevant? And how long do I persevere?’ You start asking yourself these questions,” he says. Davidson, who works at National Australia Bank (NAB) Ltd. in London, decided to get some help. On a colleague’s suggestion, he turned to Steven Goldstein, a former trader who now specializes in coaching traders and money managers. Davidson, 41, says that just talking to Goldstein eased his anxiety. “On a trading desk, there can be a lot of bravado,” he says. “We’ll sit around talking about trades but not airy-fairy stuff about how we are feeling.”

Steve Goldstein is one of BETA Group’s Alpha Experts. We are very pleased with the reports we get back from clients who have trading difficulties, firms who want to reduce risk and increase profitability by having the best traders with the deepest understanding of themselves. To arrange for Steve to run a course for you and your colleagues or for him to coach you personally, email trevor.neil@betagroup.co.uk. To read the Bloomberg article in full click here

Experts

Name :
Trevor Neil MSTA MCSI

Position : Technical Analyst

Trevor Neil, is one of Europe’s leading and most experienced technical analysis experts and fund managers. He has been a trader for nearly 40 years. As well as managing one fund and advising on another, he consults to major institutions working with traders and analysts to develop their advanced market timing skills. He does this through seminars, mentoring and consultancy.

Name :
William McKeever

Position : Energy and Power Expert

Having graduated from Dartmouth College 'Bill' McKeever started his career as a futures and options trader. Having passed a basic futures and options course at the CBOT he was hired by Rosenthal Collins and sworked as a proprietary trader for the firm. He worked on the various trading floors of Chicago and London for 14 years and as a trader he enjoyed an excellent track record of profitability. The firms he worked for included Rosenthal Collins, Fossett Corp. Chicago Research and Trading (CRT), Nations Bank and Bank of America. He was a qualified trader on the CME, CBOT, LSE, LIFFE and EUREX exchanges and traded futures and options on a variety of products including US government Bonds, FX currency options, FTSE-100 and short term interest rates on the Sterling and Euro. He subsequently moved into the financial services and vendor sector and now have more than 13 years experience working with a diverse range of companies, products and vendor systems including Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, Superderivatives and Trayport.

Name :
Peter Skerritt MA, MBA, ACI Dipl.

Position : Financial Markets & Risk Management

Peter Skerritt & Associates is a training and consultancy company, specialising in financial markets, derivatives and risk management. Peter presents courses in a number of centres across the African continent. Peter runs courses preparing for the ACI Dealing Certificate, ACI Diploma and ACI Operations Certificate as well as Professional Risk ManangerTM. These courses can now we arranged by BETA Group. Send a message to info@betagroup.co.uk and ask for a proposal for a course at your firm.

Name :
Glyn Bradney BSc MSTA

Position : Eikon Charting and Metastock Pro Expert

Glyn Bradney graduated from Imperial College, London, with an honours degree in Chemistry in the summer of 1968. Subsequently he has always worked in the financial markets sector in London. A trader in London for 20 years, over half of this as chief dealer, he joined (Thomson) Reuters in 1992 as a charting / technical analysis specialist, and continued in that role with a global responsibility until finally leaving the company and joining BETA Group at the end of January 2014.

Name :
Steven Goldstein MBA

Position : Trading Performance Coach

Steven Goldstein has almost 30 years of market experience, both as a trader and as performance coach with traders and portfolio managers. Steven’s experience includes trading cash and derivative products in the FX and Fixed Income markets. Recently Steven has gained a strong understanding of Behavioural Finance and now lectures on the subject for the STA Diploma.

Name :
Julius de Kempenaer

Position : Relative Rotation

Julius de Kempenaer is the creator of Relative Rotation Graphs which are available on Bloomberg since January 2011 under the mnemonic RRG. Within RRG Ltd. Julius will continue the further development of this revolutionary way of visualizing market rotation and share his findings and ideas through various research (related) products.

Name :
Paddy Osborn

Position : Academic Lecturer

IFTA CFTe Level 2 Certificate, Diploma - Society of Technical Analysts, BSc (Hons.) in Mathematics and Computer Science
Paddy Osborn has over 20 years of market experience, both as a trader and as a technical analyst. He is a regular commentator on CNBC.